[81] Gustave Planche, Portraits Littéraires, Paris 1836, p. 33 foll.
[82] Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. XI p. 273.
[83] Irish Quarterly Review 1852; cf. also Melmoth the Wanderer 1892, pp. XVI-XVII.
[84] In Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine; the article is reprinted in Biographia Literaria, Oxford 1907, vol. II p. 193 foll.
[85] Moore, p. 367.
[86] Coleridge’s irritation at the play may have been partly due to the above-mentioned article in the British Review, which presents a critique at once upon Christabel and Bertram and comes to the conclusion that ‘the poem which has been denominated (by Lord Byron) “wild and singularly original and beautiful” is, in our judgment, a weak and singularly nonsensical and affected performance; but the play of Bertram is a production of undoubted genius.’
[87] Goethe-Jahrbuch 1891, vol. XII p. 23; quoted by Richter, p. 299.
[88] John Genest, Some account of the English Stage from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, Bath 1832, vol. VIII p. 534.
[89] Douglas Jerrold’s Shilling Magazine 1846.
[90] New Monthly Magazine 1827.